Education reforms must go furtherIncentivising Excellence considers the conditions that need to prevail for school … regarding the effects of school choice – encompassing cross-national studies, in-depth discussions of national choice programmes … efforts to introduce school choice, most attempts have been half-hearted, making it unsurprising that many of the reforms have …

In this paper, I relax one of the common assumptions made in standard school choice problems by allowing students to … rank not just schools, but school-cohort sized pairs. The intuition for this extension is the observation that a school at … maximum capacity is not the same object, from a student’s perspective, as the same school that is only partially filled …

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions … concerning the potential effects of school choice will become especially pressing. Contributors to this volume draw on state …-of-the-art economic methods to answer some of these questions, investigating the ways in which school choice affects a wide range of …

In this paper we look at school choice in primary schools in Germany. The data used is from Wuppertal, a major city in … North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW), where school districts were abolished in 2008 to allow for free school choice. Here we look at … the situation before 2008 to learn more about choice in the presence of school districts. Our analysis shows that it is …